>> it. However, my experience is that linux is not particuarly snappy >> booting from a hibernate image, partly because there's so many >> programs that want to be paged back in and partly because it needs to >> still slowly start up any hardware it can find on the machine. > > booting from hibernate is perfectly fast nowadays.
+1, my netbook (1.6Ghz) can resume more quickly that it takes my PC's BIOS to get its act together.
